WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
progres′sive jazz′, 
  1. Music and Dancean experimental, nonmelodic, and often free-flowing style of modern jazz, esp. in the form of highly dissonant, rhythmically complex orchestral arrangements. Cf. bop 1, cool jazz, hard bop, modern jazz. 
  • 1945–50

'progressive jazz' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
bop - cool jazz - hard bop - modern jazz

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